Whilst the faculties of literacy and numeracy are rightly recognised as worthy of pedagogical nurturing, this article champions a more venerable articulacy – visualcy – crucial to a healthy culture, arguing that the one domain of human inquiry which distinguishes the visual arts from other disciplines is surely that surrounding the faculty of vision. The ascendency within the contemporary artworld of a relational aesthetics is traced through a brief history of the relationships between visual artforms and their socio-political contexts. It is suggested that the shift of emphasis away from the perceptually intriguing is in part a consequence – perhaps unintended – of the neoliberal values permeating the UK Higher Education sector in the last decade. The article ends with a proposal for a visual arts pedagogy based on five key principles of visualcy explored through the medium of drawing, illustrated with work by the author and students.

虽然识字和算术系被正确地认为是值得教学的，但本文主张对健康文化至关重要的更为古老的技巧-视觉-认为将人类的视觉研究领域与其他学科区分开是必不可少的围绕视觉系的。关系美学在当代艺术世界中的地位可以追溯到视觉艺术形式与其社会政治环境之间关系的简要历史。建议将重点从感性上的转移转移到某种程度上是过去十年来渗透到英国高等教育领域的新自由主义价值观的结果（也许是无意的）。本文最后提出了一项视觉艺术教育学的建议，该理论基于通过绘画媒介探索的视觉的五个关键原理，并由作者和学生进行了举例说明。